I was shocked when I heard it live.. Someone must have handed her the subject 2 minutes before the cameras started rolling.
Having worked there for 5 years, I can say that there is nothing particularly sunny about Germany... And of course, there is the whole size issue:
Texas: 268600 sq Miles
Germany: 137846 sq Miles
Nevada: 110600 sq Miles
- (statistics thanks to Wolfram Alpha)
Somehow, I think Texas has a little more sun than Germany.....
As a side note, the real reason they have a functioning Solar industry is due to the government subsidy programs and financial incentives...
This will just kill off the planet. Great, it lowers the temperature, but the majority of life of the planet (read: algae, plants etc) requires sunlight to live and hasn't been that greatly affected by the temperature change (yet). The amount of light they get has not changed (yet) due to global warming so they keep producing oxygen. Reduce the sunlight by 2%, and the e
The Americans (and I can say this because I am one) need to get a wake up call and start thinking about the environment. I'm not suggesting everyone become as radical as the Green party or anything, but we should at a minimum try to align with the rest of the world. Instead of trying to think up bizarre (and expensive) ways of blocking the sun, why not just reduce emissions and then try to harness more solar power?
Oh yeah, that would be bad for large companies. Also doesn't require 200billion of government spending to said companies to implement either.
Feint ======================== Do the right thing for once...
"where the US cited fears of a loss of freedom of speech as the reason for retaining power."
Oddly enough, this is also the reason other countries were objecting to the US monopoly...
And for all of you that have spent time and money re-writing your web site to use shiny new AJAX technology.. No more pages.. Only one hit it the google log.
I sure hope Google has a way toto get this to work that isn't too hard to integrate..
Great. Now I know what data is in the dots. It includes as expected serial numbers and dates, but not what I had for breakfast, nor the color of my underwear!
What would be interesting is info on how to keep the printers from putting the dots in at all. If it's not possible, then don't buy one of those printers if you care about it that much. There is a list of manufacturers that put *some* info in your printed docs, so why not just avoid those? Do you really care if the date/time is on it? Even the serial number is useless in reality. If I steal the printer from someone's home in Boston, and transport it Houston, where I print my subversive literature for global distribution, the only thing the SS can tell from the dots is "Yep.. It was printed on printer 3437938 at 10am on a friday three months ago"
Now if it had GPS coordinates included, that would be a little more scary..
In france, I subscribe to Free (www.free.fr) I have Video, Data (20Mbit), TV, and wireless.. and it's been available for months now. It all comes over the adsl connection.. (which does not necessarily imply a France Telecom subscription)
If I decide I don't like free.fr, there are at least 2 other competitors on the market with the same package..
So what's the big deal? Once you have the bandwidth to the user, its just software that provides the services.. (and a little hardware - the freebox)
Why is a cable company so special when they do it? Oh yeah.. its the USA...
Could this be extended to include other kernel parameters as well? Depending on your app, things like TCP timeouts and other muck can have a large impact. Tuning this stuff is currently somewhat of a black art. Then as the user community of the app becomes familiar after rollout, a lot of the usage patterns change. In a few cases, this means we end up having to re-tune the kernel.
If this package could be extended to the other parameters, it would save my customers a *lot* of time and money.
If nothing else, this could be a deciding factor for some of our clients to use linux instead of windows.
Umm.. Laws wont work. Everyone in the USA thinks "oooh. I'll pass a law" but the spammer in Hungaria really doesn't care. When will people realize that the internet crosses political and legal boundaries? There will *always* be some country with internet access and no willingness to legislate spam for them to set up shop in.
The only way to fix the problem is to make it unprofitable. You either do it by: 1) not buying the products (but apparently lots of people do) 2) making the cost of business outstrip the revenue
Lycos is taking the path of #2 because #1 won't ever happen.
Forget laws. They're unenforcable across borders and move WAY to slowly. Pick up a pitchfork and join the mob!
Real business transactions are done over private networks. While consumer internet businesses like ebay etc may suffer from internet outages/lack of interest/etc, companies like Ford, Philips etc will barely notice in terms of business transactions. They all use private lines. The reason is simple: you can get a SLA for a private line. Once your traffic hits the public internet, there is no SLA. While you data will probably eventually arrive, packets going from paris to amsterdam might be routed through Sydney. While this is fine for personal email and browsing random web sites, it is unacceptable for real business transactions.
Sure some small suppliers may access their larger B2B customers via an internet based VPN, but if the public internet starts to crash, those will just be converted to private lines, and the added overhead cost will be reflected in the price of the component produced.
What the author is actually predicting is in fact the death of the general public's use of the internet. In which case he may/may not be right.. We'll see..
The point of a PDA is a digital assistant. By porting X/gcc/etc to it, you get a nice demonstration of C/C++ portability, but you also end up with (another) underpowered desktop.
The reason for PDAs is not to shrink the desktop to fit in your pocket. They exist to provide pinpoint functionality at your fingertips without having to boot ro lug around your laptop/desktop.
If the same amount of manhours was put into getting a real PDA environment on top of linux (ie. syncs with outlook, has a taskpad, reads word docs etc) instead of repeated ports of X/perl/gcc/emacs to a handheld, the linux would already dominate the handheld market... if you want something starting to get close, look at opie.handhelds.org... They aren't there yet but at least its not another "port the kitchen sink to handheld xyz" project.
Been there done that in Mozilla. Nice but not worth the MS Marketing Engine.
How about something more useful like a generic "decoratable" PIM object? i.e. I get an email with somthing I need to do. I attach a date to it so it appears in my calendar. Not just a copy of the message text, but actually the email itself? Attach a priority and percent complete to it and it appears in my task listing. Thus it becomes "data" as opposed to "email".
And for the record, links or attachments from inside a task to an email object isn't the same thing.
Imagine you are about to get into your country's first manned space mission. They are going to strap a lot of (explosive) fuel to your behind, and launch you into space. They tell you that you are supposed to make only one revolution and then come back.. or you could be up there for 24 hours.....
Exactly how comfortable do you feel as you buckle yourself in? What do you think your chances are of seeing Saturn's rings *really* close? Survival of reentry? Becoming that little satellite the Americans or Russians wave at 10 years from now when the new shuttle replacement flies for the first time?
Imagine you're IBM. Why buy SCO? After the damages lawsuit, you're going to own every patent, copyright, trademark, and toilet brush SCO has anyway.
It reminds me of the end of a game of monopoly when one player ends up mortgaging everything then giving it all to the (now rich) player, who proceeds to unmortgage and build hotels..
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And you wonder what they put in your food.. Oh boy! a powdered chicken head and feet milkshake! And it's nutritious too!
You know some guy down at the sewer treatment plant is saying "hey Larry.. I'll bet I could convince someone that its food.."
I think it's about time I start shopping at the farmer's market...
It seems like this may once again be a case where some non-technical (insert derrogatory noun) heard a buzzword and decided to enact it into law. "Gee.. digital signatures.. I can scan my signature and sign documents with it!"
I imagine the origial intent was to use PGP signatures (real digital signatures) or some competing cryptographic algorithm. Alas, a little JPEG sure looks a lot more cute that an encryped stream of bytes.
Do your part to save society. Convince your local representative that outlawing politicians will increase their ratings in the polls.
You don't leave your house keys on display on your front lawn, and if you do you're asking to be robbed. The same goes with digital signatures. If you don't protect the private key, well, you get what you deserve... >On the downside, maybe some script kiddie will >hack my signature and find cool things to buy >online.
Where oh where did my little mind go... where oh where can it be?
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I was shocked when I heard it live.. Someone must have handed her the subject 2 minutes before the cameras started rolling. Having worked there for 5 years, I can say that there is nothing particularly sunny about Germany... And of course, there is the whole size issue: Texas: 268600 sq Miles Germany: 137846 sq Miles Nevada: 110600 sq Miles - (statistics thanks to Wolfram Alpha) Somehow, I think Texas has a little more sun than Germany..... As a side note, the real reason they have a functioning Solar industry is due to the government subsidy programs and financial incentives...
Thanks for including me in your circle david.c.mann on gmail.com
C'mon guys - it's just a leak.. didn't someone put some budget aside for duct tape?
This will just kill off the planet. Great, it lowers the temperature, but the majority of life of the planet (read: algae, plants etc) requires sunlight to live and hasn't been that greatly affected by the temperature change (yet). The amount of light they get has not changed (yet) due to global warming so they keep producing oxygen. Reduce the sunlight by 2%, and the e
The Americans (and I can say this because I am one) need to get a wake up call and start thinking about the environment. I'm not suggesting everyone become as radical as the Green party or anything, but we should at a minimum try to align with the rest of the world. Instead of trying to think up bizarre (and expensive) ways of blocking the sun, why not just reduce emissions and then try to harness more solar power?
Oh yeah, that would be bad for large companies. Also doesn't require 200billion of government spending to said companies to implement either.
Feint
========================
Do the right thing for once...
"where the US cited fears of a loss of freedom of speech as the reason for retaining power."
Oddly enough, this is also the reason other countries were objecting to the US monopoly...
And for all of you that have spent time and money re-writing your web site to use shiny new AJAX technology.. No more pages.. Only one hit it the google log.
I sure hope Google has a way toto get this to work that isn't too hard to integrate..
Great. Now I know what data is in the dots. It includes as expected serial numbers and dates, but not what I had for breakfast, nor the color of my underwear!
What would be interesting is info on how to keep the printers from putting the dots in at all. If it's not possible, then don't buy one of those printers if you care about it that much. There is a list of manufacturers that put *some* info in your printed docs, so why not just avoid those? Do you really care if the date/time is on it? Even the serial number is useless in reality. If I steal the printer from someone's home in Boston, and transport it Houston, where I print my subversive literature for global distribution, the only thing the SS can tell from the dots is "Yep.. It was printed on printer 3437938 at 10am on a friday three months ago"
Now if it had GPS coordinates included, that would be a little more scary..
In france, I subscribe to Free (www.free.fr)
I have Video, Data (20Mbit), TV, and wireless.. and it's been available for months now.
It all comes over the adsl connection.. (which does not necessarily imply a France Telecom subscription)
If I decide I don't like free.fr, there are at least 2 other competitors on the market with the same package..
So what's the big deal? Once you have the bandwidth to the user, its just software that provides the services.. (and a little hardware - the freebox)
Why is a cable company so special when they do it? Oh yeah.. its the USA...
Could this be extended to include other kernel parameters as well? Depending on your app, things like TCP timeouts and other muck can have a large impact. Tuning this stuff is currently somewhat of a black art. Then as the user community of the app becomes familiar after rollout, a lot of the usage patterns change. In a few cases, this means we end up having to re-tune the kernel.
If this package could be extended to the other parameters, it would save my customers a *lot* of time and money.
If nothing else, this could be a deciding factor for some of our clients to use linux instead of windows.
Umm.. Laws wont work. Everyone in the USA thinks "oooh. I'll pass a law" but the spammer in Hungaria really doesn't care. When will people realize that the internet crosses political and legal boundaries? There will *always* be some country with internet access and no willingness to legislate spam for them to set up shop in.
The only way to fix the problem is to make it unprofitable. You either do it by:
1) not buying the products (but apparently lots of people do)
2) making the cost of business outstrip the revenue
Lycos is taking the path of #2 because #1 won't ever happen.
Forget laws. They're unenforcable across borders and move WAY to slowly. Pick up a pitchfork and join the mob!
Real business transactions are done over private networks. While consumer internet businesses like ebay etc may suffer from internet outages/lack of interest/etc, companies like Ford, Philips etc will barely notice in terms of business transactions. They all use private lines. The reason is simple: you can get a SLA for a private line. Once your traffic hits the public internet, there is no SLA. While you data will probably eventually arrive, packets going from paris to amsterdam might be routed through Sydney. While this is fine for personal email and browsing random web sites, it is unacceptable for real business transactions.
Sure some small suppliers may access their larger B2B customers via an internet based VPN, but if the public internet starts to crash, those will just be converted to private lines, and the added overhead cost will be reflected in the price of the component produced.
What the author is actually predicting is in fact the death of the general public's use of the internet. In which case he may/may not be right..
We'll see..
The point of a PDA is a digital assistant. By porting X/gcc/etc to it, you get a nice demonstration of C/C++ portability, but you also end up with (another) underpowered desktop.
The reason for PDAs is not to shrink the desktop to fit in your pocket. They exist to provide pinpoint functionality at your fingertips without having to boot ro lug around your laptop/desktop.
If the same amount of manhours was put into getting a real PDA environment on top of linux (ie. syncs with outlook, has a taskpad, reads word docs etc) instead of repeated ports of X/perl/gcc/emacs to a handheld, the linux would already dominate the handheld market...
if you want something starting to get close, look at opie.handhelds.org... They aren't there yet but at least its not another "port the kitchen sink to handheld xyz" project.
Been there done that in Mozilla. Nice but not worth the MS Marketing Engine.
How about something more useful like a generic "decoratable" PIM object? i.e. I get an email with somthing I need to do. I attach a date to it so it appears in my calendar. Not just a copy of the message text, but actually the email itself? Attach a priority and percent complete to it and it appears in my task listing. Thus it becomes "data" as opposed to "email".
And for the record, links or attachments from inside a task to an email object isn't the same thing.
Imagine you are about to get into your country's first manned space mission. They are going to strap a lot of (explosive) fuel to your behind, and launch you into space. They tell you that you are supposed to make only one revolution and then come back.. or you could be up there for 24 hours.....
Exactly how comfortable do you feel as you buckle yourself in? What do you think your chances are of seeing Saturn's rings *really* close? Survival of reentry? Becoming that little satellite the Americans or Russians wave at 10 years from now when the new shuttle replacement flies for the first time?
Imagine you're IBM. Why buy SCO? After the damages lawsuit, you're going to own every patent, copyright, trademark, and toilet brush SCO has anyway.
It reminds me of the end of a game of monopoly when one player ends up mortgaging everything then giving it all to the (now rich) player, who proceeds to unmortgage and build hotels..
And you wonder what they put in your food.. Oh boy! a powdered chicken head and feet milkshake! And it's nutritious too!
You know some guy down at the sewer treatment plant is saying "hey Larry.. I'll bet I could convince someone that its food.."
I think it's about time I start shopping at the farmer's market...
I imagine the origial intent was to use PGP signatures (real digital signatures) or some competing cryptographic algorithm. Alas, a little JPEG sure looks a lot more cute that an encryped stream of bytes.
Do your part to save society. Convince your local representative that outlawing politicians will increase their ratings in the polls.
>On the downside, maybe some script kiddie will
>hack my signature and find cool things to buy
>online.
Where oh where did my little mind go... where oh where can it be?